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Okay, after strolling around on the forums for a few minutes, I also wanted to ask, what the heck happened between users to promote so much hostility? I read the rant thread and the “clear the air” thread, and ho-lee crap, I don’t remember seeing this much inter-user conflict here before. Maybe it all boiled over while I was gone, and I know I was never the MOST invested user, but still. Seems like things were more civil when I was a more regular user.

Eh, much the same I guess. Stuff’s weird. I just finished some summer classes and I’m about to start my senior year. THAT’S pretty strange. My friends are great and annoying at the same time. My family depresses me I guess, but I love them and they’re getting along. I guess things are going pretty well, actually. Heh. I got a job, I’m gonna graduate on time, and before too long I’ll be shipped off somewhere to do campus ministry.

So yeah, things are going well right now, even if not smoothly. Life’s good. What’s been on your mind recently, to ask a somewhat vague and strange question?

Oh? How’d your boyfriend fare? How many did he have to get removed? It sucks but at least it has forced me to rest for a while. If you don’t mind me asking, was there some complication that made your boyfriend’s surgery particularly unpleasant?

Requests: I have a very testing academic week ahead of me. I have a research paper due tomorrow afternoon that’s kicking my butt as we speak. I’m working on it in another tab. I also have a midterm tomorrow I have had little time to prepare for and I have another paper due Wednesday. Further I met ANOTHER girl I could possibly develop feelings for. She’s not a Christian, though, and makes a lot of decisions that make me sorrowful for her. Pray for me to keep my motives pure but continue talking to her about Jesus.

I think I’ve mentioned my brother before, who has some disabilities. He’s not crippled but he has some problems he’s going to cognitive therapy for, so please pray for him.

Leviticus 25:23 is one of my new favorite passages. It reads “…the land shall not be sold to be cut off from the family: for the land is mine, and ye be but strangers and sojourners with Me.” Now, why do I like that passage so much? God has purposefully identified with His people for the first time in Leviticus. Leviticus is a hard, hard book to reconcile and make sense of. It’s a book full of hard rules and harsh punishments, but Leviticus 25 is a little different. Yes, it’s still a book of regulations for the ancient Hebrews, but the 25th chapter details how mercy must be institutionalized into this society. How God doesn’t just not tolerate sin, He doesn’t tolerate an absence of good. And at this verse, God tells us something else about Himself and His pretty extraordinary mercy: He chooses a point of solidarity with His own. God tells us He is not of this world, He only acts in it. In the same way, we are not at home here, for as He tells us, we “are strangers and sojourners”- but here’s the important part- “with Me.” God chooses Israel and by extension us as having the privilege of being a traveler with God himself. Remember glorification, Yi. We will see God someday, and our journey’s done. The dark’s just a passing thing. We’re on the road home.

Alas BigDig, we knew thee well. You shall join Abby, Jay Leno, and all the others in halls of glory.

On a serious note, it’s interesting to me how everyone (myself definitely included) is getting really defensive about the integrity (or lack thereof) of the stream. Even the anarchy loving trolls are not happy about the Destiny invasion. Maybe it’s because the raiders are ruining the fun for everyone by removing the REAL chaos and instituting game-breaking or highly destructive releases within Democracy.

The anarchy/democracy system is an interesting change, but I’m sad to see the complete and utter chaos not ruling as strongly as it once did. So many people are taking the time voting for one mode or the other that a LOT less commands seem to be inputted, leading to red just standing around and not acting like the moron we’ve all come to know and love in this stream.